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<p>Visits play an important part of reducing reoffending as good relationships with
family and friends is proved to reduce risk of reoffending.</p><p>The management and
guidance for the use of closed visits is within Prison Service Instruction (PSI) 15/2011.
The PSI specifies that closed visits should be imposed where there is an identified
risk of smuggling prohibited items.</p><p>We recognise the benefits that Internet
Based Video Services (IBVS) can provide in assisting prisoners with maintaining family
ties. At present, however, prisoners are not allowed to use an IBVS as a way of communicating,
due to operational concerns about the control measures available to safeguard the
use of such communications. Work is currently underway to explore the options for
the use of IBVS in establishments with strict safeguards in place, and the possibility
of making greater use of such within prisons in the near future.</p><p> </p>

<p>Visits play an important part of reducing reoffending as good relationships with
family and friends is proved to reduce risk of reoffending.</p><p>The management and
guidance for the use of closed visits is within Prison Service Instruction (PSI) 15/2011.
The PSI specifies that closed visits should be imposed where there is an identified
risk of smuggling prohibited items.</p><p>We recognise the benefits that Internet
Based Video Services (IBVS) can provide in assisting prisoners with maintaining family
ties. At present, however, prisoners are not allowed to use an IBVS as a way of communicating,
due to operational concerns about the control measures available to safeguard the
use of such communications. Work is currently underway to explore the options for
the use of IBVS in establishments with strict safeguards in place, and the possibility
of making greater use of such within prisons in the near future.</p><p> </p>

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of applicants to the Criminal
Cases Review Commission have had legal representation to assist them with their applications
in each year since 2010.

<table><tbody><tr><td><p>The proportion of applicants that had legal representation
to assist them in their applications to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC),
since 2010, is outlined in the table below. <table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>%
Applicants</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>27.11% (253 out
of 933 applications received)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>29.80%
(310 out of 1,040)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>25.66% (417 out
of 1,625)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>20.88% (307 out of 1,470)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>13.63%
(218 out of 1,599)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>15.00% (222 out
of 1,480)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>14.54% (203 out of 1,397)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>12.71%
(183 out of 1,439)</p></td></tr></tbody></table></p></td></tr></tbody></table>

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his Department's press
release entitled Ministry of Justice secures extra £52 million for targeted expenditure,
published on 30 October 2018, how much of the £30 million allocated to prisons this
financial year will be spent on (a) staff, (b) maintenance, (c) new equipment, (d)
training and (e) other categories of spending.

<p>The additional funding for targeted expenditure is intended to be spent on maintenance
and safety in our prisons. The Department is currently working on allocating the exact
split of funding across the prison service, and consequently, we do not have the funding
broken down by the category of spend you have requested.</p>

<p>In Budget 2018, the Ministry of Justice received £52m additional funding, for which
the allocation between resource and capital will be confirmed within the Supplementary
Estimate.</p><p> </p><p>This will fund £30m of further improvements to safety, security
and decency, £15 million on the maintenance and security of our court buildings, and
another £6.5 million to be invested across the wider justice system, including a further
£1.5 million for the Parole Board to boost its operational capacity.</p><p> </p><p>The
Treasury have also committed to funding the cost of building a new prison at Glen
Parva in Leicestershire.</p>

<p>In Budget 2018, the Ministry of Justice received £52m additional funding, for which
the allocation between resource and capital will be confirmed within the Supplementary
Estimate.</p><p> </p><p>This will fund £30m of further improvements to safety, security
and decency, £15 million on the maintenance and security of our court buildings, and
another £6.5 million to be invested across the wider justice system, including a further
£1.5 million for the Parole Board to boost its operational capacity.</p><p> </p><p>The
Treasury have also committed to funding the cost of building a new prison at Glen
Parva in Leicestershire.</p>

<p>The publication of the female offender strategy on 27 June is the start of a new
and significant programme of work to deliver better outcomes for female offenders
at all points of the justice system. It sets out our vision to see fewer women in
custody, especially on short-term sentences, and a greater proportion of women managed
in the community successfully.</p><p> </p><p>Our vision for the ‘residential women’s
centres’ pilot is the provision of an intensive residential support package in the
community for women at risk of, or having served, short custodial sentences. The intention
is to divert them from custody where appropriate and support them to address the underlying
causes of their offending behaviour.</p><p> </p><p>We are not aware of any past or
existing provision that fully accords with this, therefore we are unable to provide
any information about how many places in women’s residential centres were funded by
the Government in each year since 2010. However, there are several similar small-scale
models such as Willowdene Farm, Anawim and Threshold Housing First, whose experiences
and knowledge will be used to inform the work undertaken in the residential women’s
centres pilot.</p>

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his Department's press
release entitled Secretary of State launches dedicated strategy to 'break the cycle'
of female offending, published on 27 June 2018, how many of the bids received by his
Department for the £3.5m grant competition for community services and multi-agency,
whole system approaches have come from companies and organisations that are currently
under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office for overcharging his Department.

<p>The Serious Fraud Office is an independent Government organisation and as such
the MoJ is not necessarily informed of ongoing investigations and has no control over
any investigations or timescales of such</p><p> </p><p>It would not be appropriate
for the MoJ to comment on any ongoing investigation by the Serious Fraud office or
to prejudge any potential outcome in any award decisions as such activities are subject
to the Public Contracts Regulations and are published in accordance with standard
practice.</p><p> </p><p>Since January 2011 details of central government contracts
above the value of £10,000, including details of suppliers to whom contracts have
been awarded, are published on Contracts Finder. Contracts published prior to 26 February
2015 can be viewed at: https://data.gov.uk/data/contracts-finder-archive Those published
after 26 February 2015 can be viewed at: <a href="https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search"
target="_blank">https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search</a></p>

<p>Our Female Offender Strategy is committed to improving outcomes for women at all
stages of the justice system, and this includes supporting those who have children.
We know that female prisoners are more likely than male prisoners to be a primary
carer and imprisoned mothers are more likely to be living with their children prior
to custody – around 60% of women compared with about 45% of men in prison who have
children. Figures from a 2015 data matching exercise with the Ministry of Justice
and the Department for Work and Pensions showed that between 24% and 31% of all female
offenders were estimated to have one or more child dependents.</p><p><br>We know that
when coming into contact with the criminal justice system, some women choose not to
disclose that they have dependent children for a number of reasons. As such, iIt is
difficult to create an accurate estimate of the number of women who choose not to
disclose and to provide appropriate targeted support. However, we want all women to
feel safe enough to disclose and are taking steps to encourage this, as outlined below.
This includes, but is not limited to, ensuring that the National Probation Service’s
pre-sentence reports, which assist the court in making sentencing decisions, highlight
the fact an offender has dependent children and supporting the roll out of the ‘Safeguarding
Children When Sentencing Mothers’ training material developed by Dr Shona Minson.</p>

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many requests made under section 17
of the Criminal Appeal Act 1995 by the Criminal Cases Review Commission were refused
by each category of public body in 2017.

<table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>No requests for information,
made by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) under Section 17 of the Criminal
Appeal Act 1995 ’the Act’, were refused by public bodies in 2017.</p><p>Since 2010,
the CCRC has never brought a judicial review against a public body because of its
refusal to agree to a request for information under Section 17 of the Act.</p><p>The
CCRC has never obtained any Crown Court Orders under Section 18A since this provision
was enacted by an amendment to the Act in 2016.</p>